Award winning cottages in the beautiful village of Broadway, the Cotswolds. Email: info@broadwaymanor.co.uk or tel: 01386 852913
Posted in Arts and Crafts, Cotswolds, Heritage on Feb 14th, 2012
William Morris (1834-1896) was a frequent visitor to Broadway during the 1880s. Morris, along with fellow Pre-Raphaelite artists, Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Edward Burne-Jones, used Broadway Tower on top of the Cotswold escarpment overlooking the village as a summer retreat. Morris began publishing poetry and short stories in 1856 and his poem ‘Love is enough’ [...]
Today is Charles Dickens Bicentenary Day. The day has seen celebrations in Portsmouth, where Dickens was born 200 years ago today, and across all corners of the globe. It is a day to remember Dickens’ connection with the colony of artists in the Cotswold village of Broadway. Broadway resident Fred Barnard illustrated nine Dickens volumes [...]
Located about an hour’s drive from our cottages in Broadway, in rural Herefordshire, are the wonderful Laskett Gardens, the largest private formal gardens created in England since 1945. Sir Roy Strong and his late wife Dr Julia Trevelyan Oman passionately transformed a neighbouring 3 acre field surrounding their home into a series of stunning gardens including extensive herbaceous [...]
Posted in Cotswolds, Cottages, Eco-Tourism, Gardens on Dec 1st, 2011
The new Wychavon Way is being launched in the next couple of weeks and the official finishing place of the popular walk will now be the Village Green in Broadway, where a stone monolith will mark the spot. The Wychavon Way was originally opened to mark The Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. The route used [...]
93 years ago, during the afternoon of Tuesday 27th August 1918, the Lifford Hall in the Cotswold village of Broadway was full to capacity for an afternoon of music and drama in aid of the Fund for the Relief of Belgian Artists. Arranged by the ‘celebrity’ Amercian stage actress and Broadway resident, Mary Anderson (de [...]